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Ojai Valley area photographs
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Ojai Valley area photographs
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Amateur photographs taken by Mary Gally depicting the buildings and landscape of the Ojai Valley in California in the late 19th century. Photographs show the area surrounding the Oak Glen Cottages, an early tourist resort run by Gally and her husband, and include views of the cottages, the Presbyterian Church, trees, cattle, a pool in the San Antonio Creek, a beekeeper, and Chumash Indian artifacts. Included with the collection is a typescript copy of a two-page reminiscence made by Gally in 1942 of her to California and Ojai in 1885 and her years at the cottages (photPF 20096). The reminiscence includes a description of the Chinese labor force she and her husband employed at the resort.
photPF 20086-20096
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Ojai Valley Country Club: Ojai, CA [photograph of drawing]
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This collection contains photographs, papers and published articles related to Los Angeles architect Wallace Neff (1895-1982) and his work designing residential and public buildings, primarily in Southern California, approximately 1913-1960s. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of residential exteriors and interiors, with some views of other buildings; photographs of Neff's sketches; photographs of architectural drawings; portraits of Neff and family members; and correspondence and patent drawings pertaining to airform construction. The airform construction or "Bubble house" materials also include snapshots of airform housing under construction in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1961. An autograph copy of Neff's book "Architecture of Southern California" (Rand McNally, 1964) is also part of this collection (Box 6).
photCL 211
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Central Valley and Central Coast California photographs
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Contents: Office of the Fresno Expositor (stereograph by Ira W. Byington); Santa Barbara Mission (exterior and interior views); Panorama of San Luis Obispo City; San Luis Obispo Mission (reconstruction elevation); Molus Mine (Mono County); Point Lobos group portrait (Monterey County). Annotations on the photographs note "Hardy 1945."
photPF 3786-3799b
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Collection of miscellaneous Northern California photographs and portraits
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The collection of images include a botanical specimen photograph card (sarcodes sanguniea torrey or snow plant of the Sierra), a U.S. Army encampment scene (Sacramento), portraits, and buildings. Among the photographs are roof tops (San Jose), the Santa Barbara Mission capturing priests in the corridor, Auburn Poultry Producer (store facade), William Chapman Ralston (1826-1875) San Francisco Banker, Miss Adams (Mormon actress), Mary Anderson's farm (Oakland), and a postcard photograph of First Bank in Northern California at Coloma. The Auburn Poultry photograph is noted as being a gift of Collis Halladay (1893) and a majority of the photographs cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.
photPF 3520-3549
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Photographs of San Diego, Santa Barbara, and El Paso, Texas
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Nine cabinet card photographs. Subjects in San Diego County: San Diego Harbor; Hotel Del Coronado; and buildings and orchards of S. M. Marshall ranch in El Cajon. Four cabinet cards by Hayward & Muzzall of the bay, beach, and town of Santa Barbara as seen from the wharf. Santa Barbara Mission is in the distance. One photograph of adobes on an El Paso, Texas street, with signs in Spanish.
photPF 570-579
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Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, CA
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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
photCL MLP